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[bzarcher]

Dear Nintendo,

I recently bought the Zelda: Twilight Princess for your Wii console. Based on the packaging, story, and the fact that it's a Zelda game, I expected to enter a world of magic, swordsmanship, and epic adventure and fantasy.

Which is why I'm rather confused that a key part of the "opening chapter" seems to involve me sitting by a pond and fishing for almost an hour.

If I really wanted to sit watching my bobbin, attempting to get better lures, and paitently wait until I got a bite, then struggle to land a fish that inevitably seems to get away because I don't have the ability to collect better bait yet until I progress to another part of the game, I'd have bought fucking bassmasters. You Assholes.

Seriously, what the fuck is this?

Signed,

-Me.

Comments

[spoonybardol.livejournal.com]

Link: How I mine for fish? D:

I don't recall having too much trouble with that part. The mandatory fishing was a pain, but I got it after two or three tries.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

I just keep getting "FISH ON!" and I pull my wiimote up to take the fish out of the water, and it seems to jump off the hook.

*fistshake*

[snowspinner.livejournal.com]

Try lifting the Wiimote a bit slower.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I thought I was going pretty slow, but I'll try.

[snowspinner.livejournal.com]

Perhaps faster then. I remember it taking a bit to get this step, and having the problem that the process is more lifting the fish out than jerking it out.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

I'll try a few things. :)

[snowspinner.livejournal.com]

Is there mandatory fishing? I honestly don't remember much beyond a sort of standard Zelda-ish minigame... certainly not an hour's worth of fishing across the entire game, actually.

Is it possible you just suck at fishing? :)

[jennekirby.livejournal.com]

I remember you cursing for a long time about being forced to fish, actually.

[snowspinner.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but me cursing about video games isn't really evidence of anything beyond the continued existence of my vocal cords.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Granted, but I'm still laughing.

[flaggerx.livejournal.com]

At least you're not a big fan of seafood.

And seriously, people find the sport amazing. Sigh!

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Yikes.

[buschap.livejournal.com]

After "Fish on", yank the Wiimote up. It's unintuitive, and I had to FAQ it. I suspect it was a problem of being upconverted from the Gamecube.

Later fishing you should do slow, but the mandatory fishing at the start? Yank.

I spent half an hour shepherding the cat across the pond, only to have it disappear, thinking maybe I could get around the fishing.

[buschap.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, there are a couple other points in the game where I was infuriated by control issues. It's about 95% awesome, but those other 5%? Yow.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Yeah, if the fishing and I are still not getting along next time I sit down to play it, Link may find his adventure carrying him all the way to Gamestop...

[spartanfan.livejournal.com]

In Fallout 3 you get a man-portable nuclear weapons platform.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

I have heard much about the lure of the Wastelands. Probably won't have much gaming money until after the holidays, tho.